Role

Guidelines for a program for recruiting distributive education teacher-coordinators are developed in this study. In determining the content of the recruiting program, the study focused on the roles and responsibilities of the various participants in the process: local teacher-coordinators, teacher educators, and state supervisory staff. A questionnaire survey of these three groups as they are found in Region V (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) provided data which revealed that the distributive education personnel were in agreement concerning six areas of responsibility that should be assumed by teacher-Coordinato-zsr four that should be assumed by teacher educators, and three that should be assumed by state supervisors. There was also agreement concerning 10 types of information that should be included in the recruitment program content. The study offers eight recommendations for the recruitment of DE teacher 'coordinators, including the need for.on-campus wopen-houses " to be held periodically to which teachers in the field may bring interested students. (IS